chrisch : I totally agree now with everything you say
. The dives are not the "wonderworld" that a 50m vis diver would really enjoy with little dive experience. I would simply say that we do train OWD in lakes with 30cm vis... but it's a system shock
For the lake of neuchatel, if you speak french, have a check out on
www.plongeur.com which is a french board to get more info, i don't know the lake really well, but i know there is stuff in there
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For the val verzasca it's at the end of the lago mayore... by Lugano and locarno on the swiss side. where you can get a good glass of wine and a few little nibbles after the dive
have a look here :
http://www.swissdivingschool.ch/
I would say that a dive trip around this area could be interesting in the following sense :
10 days :
Day 1 : Set up, getting the thing ready.
Day 2 : Val Verzasca
Day 3 : Lago maggiore
Day 4 : Portofino
Day 5 : Nice (france)
Day 6 : Break & visits
Day 7 : Porquerolle / port Cros (france)
Day 8 : Lake Lioson : Ice diving / altitude diving
Day 9 : Final Dive : Lake geneva
Day 10: Relaxing & home
This is a hard mileage tour, but could get quite a few divers in the water with a loooot of fun
The dive center is going good... under massive refurbishments... been here for 1.5 years so there's still to do to adapt to new regulations etc... but it's looking like it's going to be a "design" dive center
... my graphics designer background coming back, & my wife's interior decorator dream coming out too.